Remove EXIF data from photos
Check which hidden details a photo carries (GPS location, camera, date taken) and save a clean copy with the picture untouched. Everything happens in your browser.
What gets removed
- JPEG: EXIF (including GPS), XMP, IPTC/Photoshop blocks, comments and other application segments. Colour profiles (ICC) are kept so colours don’t shift.
- PNG: text chunks (software, comments, XMP), eXIf and timestamp chunks.
- WebP: EXIF and XMP chunks.
Compressing with the main compressor also drops metadata, because files are rebuilt from pixels, but that re-encodes the image. Use this page when you want the exact same picture.
Questions
What is EXIF data?
EXIF is metadata that cameras and phones write into photos: camera model, lens, exposure, date and time, often GPS coordinates, and sometimes the device serial number.
Does removing EXIF reduce quality?
No. This tool cuts the metadata segments out of the file and leaves the compressed image data byte-for-byte identical. The picture is not re-encoded.
Do social networks remove EXIF anyway?
Many large platforms strip location data from public images, but email attachments, cloud-drive links, forums, messaging apps set to send “original quality” and many websites keep it. Cleaning the file yourself removes the doubt.
What about the orientation tag?
Phones often store a photo sideways and use an EXIF flag to rotate it for display. By default the tool keeps just that one flag so pictures don’t turn sideways; untick the option to remove it too.